Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of New item titled “Six workers killed in fire inside Nagaland rat-hole mine “appearing in The Hindu Bureau Dated 27.01.2024 Vs Nagaland Pollution Control Board & Others dated 30/04/2024. Cognizance of the case was taken up suo-motu …
Kohima, April 27: Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has announced that the State will attain food sufficiency by 2020 and called upon for better coordination between agri and allied sectors. Official sources here today said, addressing a Kohima District Planning and Development Board (KDPDB) meeting yesterday, Rio elaborated the vision …
KOHIMA, April 19: The Nagaland Government envisages implementing the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) to ensure food security for the poor. The distribution system benefits identified poor families under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and other population living below poverty line. Local administrative officers are fully involved for identification of …
Kohima, April 7: Nagaland will join the rest of the country in observing anti-Malaria month in April. Anti-malaria month is observed in the month of June but due to paradigm shift of diseases transmission the month of April has been chosen for the observance, said Dr Imtimeren Jamir, additional director, …
Kohima: The much hyped ''Earth Hour'' on Saturday night turned to an anti-climax when the Power Department was compelled to shut down power supplies all over Nagaland, as only ten per cent people had responded to the global call. Official sources said despite much publicity and appeal by various organizations …
JORHAT, March 1: What prevents Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) from making a formal announcement about the reported discovery of a uranium reserve at Borhola along the Assam-Nagaland border in November 2009? Speculations from various quarters are diverse, but the move on …
Invasive alien species are regarded as principal threats to global biodiversity. In this paper, the authors describe a situation where an endemic plant species, the dwarf bamboo
On February 12, state governments together held close to Rs 101,461 crore worth of 14-day treasury bills. Five years earlier, just before the Twelfth Finance Commission presented its report, that number was Rs 13,351 crore. Investment by states in 14-day treasury bills provides the closest measure of the cash available …
Kohima, Feb 19: Four persons including a minor were charred to death in a forest fire at Noklak in Tuensang district, official sources said today. Two women and a 10-year-old boy, who went for firewood collection, were engulfed by the spreading jungle fire near a Mission centre in Noklak town …
Kohima, Feb 18: The Nagaland Government has noted random burning of jungles in various parts of the State recently and threatened to withhold all government grants if such cases are found in any village. Official sources here today said the government has issued a notice on the jungle burning stating …
JORHAT, Feb 2: Teeming with wildlife, the Naga Hills have become an easy target for poachers who kill deer and fowl for flesh, skin and feathers. An incident which occurred recently, indicates how serious hunting has become in the hills bordering the Assam-Nagaland border here. Recently a resident of Enaki …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sanctioned a HIV/AIDS project worth USD 1.47 million for the North Eastern States of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland. The region
KOHIMA, Jan 16: Seeking to ensure supply of safe and clean drinkable water as also to check the metering system in the State capital, Minister for PHED Dr K Ngangshi Ao today carried out a spot-inspection of the Water Treatment Plant at Jotsoma and the progress of the metering systems …
